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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 8 - Issue 6 | June 2018
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Magna Systems Presents
its Latest Partnerships
Magna Systems & Engineering Director of Sales and Operations (Asia) Patrick So explains
that this year's BroadcastAsia marks a turning point for the company, as it celebrates
its 50th anniversary in the broadcast industry...
A
t the BroadcastAsia 2018 event,
Magna Systems will present its
widest ever array of IP-based content
contribution, content distribution, UHD
production, workflow and monitoring
solutions.
As the Asia-Pacific region increasingly
looks for clever and efficient IP-based
broadcasting and production solutions,
Magna Systems will not only be
demonstrating them in partnership with
their key technology principals, but also
highlighting its 50 years as a systems
integration specialist in the broadcast
industry.
With their history set very firmly in
the early days of television and the
broadcast industry, Magna Systems
& Engineering has evolved a culture
based on quality, experience and
trust - all of which are as true today
as they were in 1968 and all of which
will be on show and demonstrated at
BroadcastAsia 2018.
Clearly much has changed in the
broadcast industry and, to a large
extent, it has been Magna's ability
to change ahead of the times as well
as with them that has meant Magna
Systems is one of the most successful
independent
companies
in
the
broadcast industry today.
Trailblazing Partnerships
A key feature on Magna's stand
at this year's BroadcastAsia will be
demonstrations of Magna's unique
problem-solving abilities and the depth
of the partnerships they achieve with
their clients.
Magna often has to come up with
totally bespoke solutions for problems
that had not been anticipated in
an initial brief or tender. Their
management and leadership teams are
spread across the Asia-Pacific region
and thus easily able to integrate and
share ideas, and it is these ideas that
will also form the cornerstones of the
Magna Systems stand at BroadcastAsia
2018. Some key solutions and highlights
on Magna's BroadcastAsia 2018 stand
include some of the industry's true
technology trailblazers.
Content Distribution
There will be the FileCatalyst
software
platform
designed
to
accelerate and manage file transfers
securely and reliably. FileCatalyst is
immune to the effects that latency
and packet loss have on traditional
file transfer methods including FTP,
HTTP or CIFS. Global organisations
use FileCatalyst to solve issues related
to file transfer including content
distribution, file sharing, and offsite
backups.
TVU Networks will also be on the
Magna Systems stand with their
TVU Remote Production System
(RPS). This clever system provides
a lower cost alternative for live
remote synchronised multi-camera
coverage for news and sports. Instead
of always relying on expensive onlocation production trucks and large
production crews, TVU RPS allows
broadcasters to leverage their existing
studio control room infrastructure
and a public internet connection from
any venue to deliver frame accurate,
genlocked and synchronised multicamera remote production. TVU
RPS is comprised of one rack-mount
transmitter (encoder) and one rackmount receiver (decoder). It features
an easy-to-use web interface for
monitoring and controlling all aspects
TVU RPS will be on the
Magna Systems stand
of the transmission, including realtime previews of all six channels,
current bit-rate and latency. The TVU
RPS transmitter can encode up to six
synchronised SDI sources and transmit
high-quality and low latency IP video
to the TVU receiver, which in turn
outputs six synchronised SDI outputs.
Workflow and Monitoring
Alongside these will be Tag Video
Systems showing their MCM-9000
software-based IP monitoring solution
combined with a state-of-the-art IP
Multiviewer for all broadcast layers
to include un-compressed 2022-6/7
& 2110; JPEG2000 TR-01; MPEG2/4/
HEVC Transport Steams and OTT. An
UHD or HD video mosaic output of
the monitored services with rich data
and overlaid alerts is viewable from
anywhere including on mobile devices.
With over 300 preset errors and events,
full ETR 290 and ATSC, baseband
analysis, SNMP traps, syslog, email
alerts with detailed event information
and various notification types displayed
on multiple mosaic layouts, the MCM9000 solution is at the top of its game.
Also in monitoring you'll see
demonstrations
from
Bridge
Technologies as they highlight their
advanced solutions for protecting
service quality in the digital media and
telecommunications industries. The
company's award-winning monitoring
and analysis systems, intelligent
switchers and virtual environments
help deliver over 20,000 channels to
more than 900 million subscribers in
94 countries. From head-end satellite
ingress to microAnalytics in the home
network, Bridge Technologies offers
patented innovation and true end-toend transparency.
System Integration
In the world of high-quality broadcast
control systems and panels visitors
to the Magna stand will also see
demonstrations from BFE. The AsiaPacific market has been asking for
a very real and credible option and
alternative in the area of broadcast
control systems for a long time, and it is
finally here in the shape of BFE's unique
solutions.
BFE
develops
comprehensive
solutions in broadcasting and media
technology and their core competence
is in studio systems, broadcasting
vehicles and technical media systems.
Other Magna Systems & Engineering
partners and principals in the AsiaPacific region include ChyronHego,
Crystal, ENENSYS, GB Labs, Interra,
Nevion, Pebble Beach Systems,
SeaChange, Tedial and Telestream.